Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
I will sow and another shall eat; and my offspring shall be rooted up.
New American Standard Bible
And let my
King James Version
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Holman Bible
and let my crops be uprooted.
International Standard Version
what I've planted, let another eat or let my crops be uprooted."
A Conservative Version
then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
American Standard Version
Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
Amplified
Then let me plant and [let] another eat [from the results of my labor],
And let my crops be uprooted and ruined.
Bible in Basic English
Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.
Darby Translation
Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
King James 2000
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Lexham Expanded Bible
let me sow, and let another eat, and let my crops be rooted out.
Modern King James verseion
then let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out.
NET Bible
then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.
New Heart English Bible
then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
The Emphasized Bible
Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!
Webster
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.
World English Bible
then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
Youngs Literal Translation
Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
7 If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands: 8 I will sow and another shall eat; and my offspring shall be rooted up. 9 If my heart was seduced by woman, and I laid wait at the door of my neighbor;
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:16
Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.
Micah 6:15
Thou shalt sow and thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olive and thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and new wine, and thou shalt not drink wine.
Deuteronomy 28:38
Thou shalt bring out much seed to thy field, and shalt gather little, for the locust shall devour it
Deuteronomy 28:30-33
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house and shall not dwell in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard and thou shalt not lay it open.
Deuteronomy 28:51
And it shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land till he destroyed thee: which shall not leave to thee grain, new wine or new oil, the offspring of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep, till his destroying thee.
Judges 6:3-6
And it was if Israel sowed, and Midian came up, and Amalek, and the sons of the east, and they came up against him:
Job 5:4-5
His sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and none delivering.
Job 15:30
He shall not depart from darkness; the flame shall dry up his suckers, and by the breath of his mouth shall he depart
Job 18:19
No offspring to him, and no progeny among his people, and not a survivor in his dwellings.
Job 20:18
Turning back the labor, and he shall not swallow down: according to the substance of his exchange and he shall not exult
Job 24:6
In the field they will harvest his meslin, and they will glean the vintage of the unjust one.
Psalm 109:13
His descendants shall be for cutting off; in the later generation their name shall be wiped off.